noun

1. A common substance recognised chemically as sodium chloride (NaCl?), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
2. (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
3. A kind of marsh at the shore of a sea (short for salt marsh, apparently not in a wide-spread use).
4. (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
5. (cryptography) Additional bytes inserted into a plaintext message before encryption, in order to increase randomness and render brute force, brute-force decryption more difficult.

verb

1. (transitive) To add salt to.
2. (mining) To blast gold into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
3. (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
4. To include colorful language in.
5. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.

adjective

1. salty, Salty.
2. saline, Saline.

noun

1. (mineralogy) A variety of orthoclase feldspar found as tabular crystals embedded in volcanic rocks. It sometimes reflects a blue sheen along crystal planes. This phenomenon is called adularescence, and sanidine with this property is called moonstone.

• Chemical composition: Potassium aluminum silicate, <math>KAlSi?_3O_8</math>
  
• Physical properties:
  Moh's Hardness: 6.0
  Specific gravity: 2.6
  Color: white, flesh, yellow, pink
  Luster: glassy
  Fracture: conchoidal
  Habit: tabular. Well developed crystal faces are often highly reflective.

proper noun

1. given female name

noun

1. (mineralogy) Any of several mixed sodium and calcium aluminosilicates which also contain chloride, carbonate and sulfate and are found in metamorphic rocks

noun

1. (mineralogy) a mineral composed of calcium tungstate; an important tungsten ore

noun

1. A device used to measure the hardness of a material by applying pressure to a moving diamond stylus

noun

1. (mineralogy) a soft, glassy form of gypsum (chemical formula CaSO?₄·2H₂O)
2. (chemistry) the anion SeO?₃^2&minus; derived from selenous acid; any salt or ester of senenous acid

proper noun

1. Name of the lake in Hyde Park, London.

noun (siderites, -)

1. (uncountable), (mineralogy) a widespread brown mineral, FeCO?₃, having the structure of calcite
   
2. (countable) an iron meteorite

noun

1. finely ground relatively pure form of silicas used as a paint filler etc.
2. Obsolescent: In Latin, ca 1590, use meaning "Flints" (hard rocks), as a Early Modern Era term for silica materials (earths).

noun

1. (chemistry) Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates

adjective

1. (chemistry) of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling silica

adjective

1. yielding or bearing silica

noun

1. (mineralogy) a fibrous neosilicate mineral, polymorphic with andalusite and kyanite

noun

1. (mineralogy) A mixed cobalt and nickel arsenide and sulfide mineral

noun

1. (mineralogy) a mineral form of zinc carbonate, ZnCO?₃, mined as an ore of zinc or as an ornamental stone

noun

1. (mineralogy) A mineral of alkaline igneous and plutonic rocks that are low in silica. Pink sodalite is sometimes called hackmanite. Sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite Group of silicate minerals.

1. • Chemical composition: Sodium aluminum silicate with chlorine, <math>Na_4Al_3Si_3O_{12}Cl</math>
     

noun

1. sodium nitrate

noun

1. (chemistry) any silicate based on the dimeric anion Si₂O₇^6-

noun

1. (mineralogy) A yellow, brown or black, sometimes red, green white or colorless mineral with cubic crystals, of a chemical formula (zinc, Zn,iron, Fe)sulfur, S.<ref name="Dana's new"/>

noun

1. (mineralogy) titanite

noun

1. (mineralogy) any of several hard, glassy minerals that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours

noun

1. a dark-gray lustrous mineral, a mixed sulphide of copper, iron and tin, Cu₂FeSnS?₄, used as an ore of tin

noun

1. (mineralogy) A grey mineral, Sb₂S₃, that is the main ore of antimony; used in ancient times as the cosmetic kohl

noun

1. (mineralogy) A fine-grained mineral, SiO?₂, that is a polymorphic form of quartz formed under very high pressure

noun (plural: streaks)

1. An irregular line left from smearing or motion.

The picture I took out the car window had streaks.

1. A continuous series of like events.

I hope I can keep up this of accomplishments.

1. The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
2. A moth of the family Geometridae Chesias legatella (see w:Streak (moth)).
3. A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.

She's a quiet, bookish person, but she has a rebellious .

verb to streak (streaks, streaked, streaking) Intransitive:

1. to have or obtain streaks;

If you clean a window in direct sunlight, it will streak.

1. (slang) to run naked in public

It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field. Transitive:

1. to create streaks

You will a window by cleaning it in direct sunlight.

noun (stri, ae)

1. A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes.

proper noun

1. A small village in Scotland that gives its name to the element strontium and the mineral strontianite which was discovered there

noun

1. (mineralogy) A grey or yellowish mineral, SrCO?₃, strontium carbonate, that is an ore of strontium

noun

1. (mineralogy) a saline evaporite, consisting of potassium chloride, also found in fumaroles